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Lowood Memorial Grove commemorates teacher Lex Logan, students Catherine Luck, Gordon Klass and Clyde Profke , who tragically died in unrelated incidents in 1940 and 1941. The Memorial Grove (which also contains a plaque set into a white plinth) was planted in 2013 and replaces the original trees which had been removed.

In May 2012 a large fig tree in Prospect Street near Lowood High School Hall was cut down for safety reasons. It was the last of four memorial fig trees planted in a special ceremony outside Lowood State Rural School in June 1945.

Known as the 'Lex Logan Memorial tree', it commemorated Lowood schoolteacher Whitmore 'Lex' Logan who enlisted in the RAAF and was one of Australia's first World War Two casualties in the Pacific, when his plane was shot down near Khota Bahru, British Malaya, on June 8, 1941. The other trees, that had already been removed over the years, commemorated three Lowood schoolchildren - Catherine Luck, Gordon Klass and Clyde Profke - who died in unrelated incidents that occurred between June 1940 and May 1941.